‘Full Frontal’s’ Amy Hoggart, Magician Shawn Farquhar Feature in Films World Premiering in Hot Docs’ Special Presentations Section

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EXCLUSIVE: Alloy Entertainment’s Head of Film Elysa Dutton has written a children’s book and her employer is turning it into its first animated feature film.

The iconic web series Red vs. Blue is about to close its final chapter. Just weeks following the shutdown of the production company that created it, Burnie Burns’ Rooster Teeth, Warner Bros. Discovery today announced that one of the internet’s longest-running series will end its 19th and final season with a full-length feature film. Red vs. Blue: Restoration will be released on several streaming platforms on May 7.

Gillian Anderson is hitting the red carpet for the world premiere of her new Netflix movie!

The ten film programmers who led a mass exodus this week out of Canada’s Hot Docs Film Festival have said a “toxic workplace” environment was the central issue behind their public exit. 

The Cannes Film Festival’s Marché du Film is launching a new initiative, bannered Cannes Remakes, aimed at fostering remake opportunities for European feature films that have proven successful in their home territories.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor European Film Promotion has unveiled the seventh edition of the Changing Face of Europe, a section that runs as part of Toronto documentary festival Hot Docs, which runs April 25 – May 5. The section features nine European documentaries, selected by the Hot Docs programming team, that “illustrate and examine a new and contemporary Europe from a cultural, social, geo-political and economic perspective.” In addition to attending the screenings and the festival’s industry program, the directors and producers of the films will be part of on-site and online events organized by EFP, including networking sessions and one-on-one meetings with distributors, buyers and festival programmers from North America. “Kelly – Someone Else’s Dream” follows Estonian freestyle skier Kelly Sildaru.

The world premiere of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is here!

Naman Ramachandran Artistic director Hussain Currimbhoy and several programmers have stepped down ahead of this year’s edition of Hot Docs, North America’s largest documentary festival. Festival director Heather Haynes will now lead the programming department. A statement from the Toronto-based event said: “Hot Docs has announced that Hussain Currimbhoy stepped down from his role as Artistic Director on March 20th due to personal reasons.

UPDATED, 3:55 p.m.: Without acknowledging them by name, a spokesperson for leading documentary festival Hot Docs has confirmed the departure of “some members of the programming team,” as well as recently appointed Artistic Director Hussain Currimbhoy.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter After much speculation, the Cannes Film Festival has officially revealed that “Furiosa” will world premiere on the Croisette in 2024. The prequel will screen out of competition on May 15 at the Grand Theatre Lumière at le Palais des Festivals.

Lise Pedersen Swiss documentary film festival Visions du Réel has unveiled the program for its 55th edition, which includes 10 first films out of 15 in the main international competition, cementing its reputation as a springboard for emerging talent. The official selection includes 165 films from 50 countries, with gender parity for the second-year running, and no fewer than 88 world premieres, making VdR the place to be in April on the international non-fiction film calendar.

A city considered to be the warmest on earth is now so hot the streets have air-con. The Middle Eastern city is almost unliveable, with temperatures in the summer hitting more than 50C.

The story shocked the world 10 years ago: the Copenhagen Zoo’s decision to euthanize a healthy two-year-old giraffe named Marius because they considered it a “surplus animal.” CNN reported on it. So did Le Monde in France, the U.K.’s Guardian and The Independent, and the Irish Times.

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM opened this year’s SXSW with a bang with Road House, and they’re going to end it tonight with another one, that being Michael Showalter’s Anne Hathaway romance movie, The Idea of You.

“This is one of the comedies that changed the way people look at comedies,” beamed Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire star Patton Oswalt about the comedy franchise.

One of the most anticipated movies in a contentious Red vs. Blue election year, A24‘s Civil War made its grand splash Thursday night in the Texas democratic stronghold of Austin — and the media, on which this feature casts a spotlight, savored it like a stack of beef ribs.

The stars of the new Road House movie are promoting the film in London!

Netflix viewers have been left terrified by Ti West’s acclaimed horror X, after it recently dropped on the streaming service.The A24 film follows a group of actors as they set out to make an adult film in rural Texas under the noses of their reclusive hosts. But when the elderly couple catches their young guests in the act, the cast finds themselves in a desperate fight for their lives.X stars the likes of Nymphomaniac‘s Mia Goth, Wednesday‘s Jenna Ortega, and musician Kid Cudi – real name Scott Mescudi.Martin Henderson (Everest), Pitch Perfect‘s Brittany Snow and Owen Campbell (Conviction) also make up the cast.Goth plays the role of a young woman and an aspiring adult film star called Maxine, as well as an elderly woman named Pearl.

“Don’t worry, I’m not going to sing — I promise” beamed The Fall Guy star Ryan Gosling to a crowded Paramount Theatre in Austin on Tuesday night.